[AccessD] Fancy graphs from Access

curious, why should people reinvent a wheel that third party sw seems to
have reasonably covered? Does the 3rd party sw cost too much or fail to
deliver? I hate tedium. If I could avoid it for non-specific crap like
charting and dashboards I would certainly look into it, especially for
commercial stuff where someone else is willing to foot the bill. They will
pay a lot for my time to develop based on my billing rate and learning
curve.
On Feb 4, 2015 5:52 PM, "Dan Waters" <df.waters at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> You can make a variety of good-looking charts in Access.  This looks like a
> good place to start:  http://www.functionx.com/access/Lesson32.htm
>
> However, you may have to give up on pie charts.  The reason is that the
> leader lines for each section of the pie end up on top of each other, and
> they cannot be relocated in code (every pie chart I ever made in Excel
> needed to have the leader lines manually located to be viewable).  I guess
> if you turn the leaders off (if possible), then you can just use the legend
> to show which pie section is for what.
>
> I've made some interesting charts in Access.  It's tedious, and you
> sometimes have to do some magic with queries, but hopefully your customer
> will like them.   Expect to put some hours into developing each chart, and
> charge accordingly.
>
> Good Luck!
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 16:30 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Fancy graphs from Access
>
> I've just had a client ask how he can print some fancy formatted pie charts
> and graphs from an Access database.  I don't have a clue - can anyone
> suggest a work flow that he can use?  I can always build a query to get the
> data out to Excel or ???, but from that point onward I have no experience.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
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